Best Collection Of TV Shows About Manchester

Riots, scandals, fractured families and familiar faces - Waterloo Road is back with a new term and a whole new attitude. Who said education was easy?

Follow the lives and woes of the residents of a Manchester house divided into four different flats. Gemma Foster's neighbour, Emma, now goes by the name of Belle, looking to start a new life. Three other interconnected stories tell a tale of love, loss, birth, death, the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between.

Legendary coach Pep Guardiola leads his Manchester City team through the 2017-18 football season.

OTT Platforms for All or Nothing: Manchester City are Amazon Prime Video, Virgin TV Go

Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.

OTT Platforms for This Is England '90 are Sky Go, All 4 Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.

OTT Platforms for No Offence are All 4, BritBox, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

John Redmond and Kayleigh Kitson have been thrown together in a company car share scheme, forcing their paths to cross. Each trip brings fresh insight into John and Kayleigh's lives, with twists and turns in their unlikely relationship.

OTT Platforms for Peter Kay's Car Share are Virgin TV Go Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, and Amazon Video.

Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history.

OTT Platforms for Cucumber are Sky Go, All 4, BritBox, Virgin TV Go, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Amazon Video.

Banana is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on E4. The sister series to Channel 4's Cucumber and the 4oD documentary series Tofu, Banana is a series focusing on LGBT youth in Manchester, around the narrative of Cucumber. Unlike Cucumber, which is a self-contained serial following the story of one gay man, Banana is an anthology series focusing on the wider LGBT spectrum. The series was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. Banana develops some of the storylines of characters featured in Cucumber as well as introducing many new characters. Banana is primarily a self-contained series, occasional overlapping with the Cucumber narrative. Cucumber, Banana, and Tofu are all named after the same scale of erection hardness, with Banana symbolising the middle of the scale from the flaccid Tofu to the fully erect Cucumber.

OTT Platforms for Banana are Sky Go, All 4, BritBox, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple iTunes, Amazon Video.

The Driver tells the story of Vince who, following a family mystery, blames himself and his inadequacies and, out of this crisis, he accepts an offer to start driving for a criminal gang.

OTT Platforms for The Driver are Amazon Prime Video Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!

OTT Platforms for Fresh Meat are Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky Go, All 4, and Virgin TV Go Apple iTunes, Sky Store, and Amazon Video.

The life of Mancunian Lisa and the day-to-day adventures she has with her husband, friends and family.

OTT Platforms for Mount Pleasant are Sky Go, Now TV, and Virgin TV Go Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.

OTT Platforms for Scott & Bailey are BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel Google Play Movies.

LOL is a web series exploring teen relationships, drug use and social networks. It premiered on Blip on 29 November 2008. There are 20 webisodes in total, ranging between 2 to 5 minutes in length with the last webisode being 10 minutes long. The series was self-funded, with initial help in kind from a local production company. It was shot on a Red One digital cinema camera in 4K.

True Dare Kiss is a British television drama produced for BBC One. It is written by Debbie Horsfield and produced by Marcus Wilson and features Dervla Kirwan, David Bradley and Lorraine Ashbourne. It concerns the reunion of four sisters and a brother following the death of their estranged father, uncovering the truth, hiding secrets, and a cataclysmic event in the past. The series, set in the city of Manchester in the North-West of England, was aired in six parts from 28 June 2007. Filming for the series began on 8 January 2007.

Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.

Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.

OTT Platforms for Waterloo Road are Sky Go

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

OTT Platforms for Life on Mars are BritBox Amazon Channel

Ideal is a British dark comedy sit-com, originally broadcast on digital channel BBC Three, created by Graham Duff and produced by BBC Comedy North and Baby Cow Productions. It stars Johnny Vegas as small-time cannabis dealer Moz. It is set in Salford, Greater Manchester, chosen because Duff was familiar with the area having done many stand-up gigs there during his youth. Most of the series takes place in Moz's flat and revolves around the eclectic array of characters who visit Moz to buy cannabis, socialise or both. The closing theme is "Song of the Oss" from the album Nuada: Music Inspired By the Film the Wicker Man composed by British band Candidate. The series also features a number of tracks by Californian hip hop group Ugly Duckling. It was broadcast on BBC Three in the UK, on entertainment channel 3e in Ireland and on ABC2 in Australia. First broadcast in 2005, seven series have been shown; the most recent ended on 30 June 2011. After the seventh series aired, Ideal was cancelled by the BBC. Following the announcement, writer and creator Graham Duff wrote to fans: "As some of you may have heard, the BBC have decided against commissioning an 8th series of Ideal. The reason given was that the new channel controller wanted to make a clean sweep. It is a source of both pride and frustration that, at the point of cancellation, Ideal was attracting its biggest ever audiences, its highest profile guest stars and its best ever reviews. And the show is now being screened in more countries than ever before - from America to Finland and beyond." Fans have launched a petition dedicated to saving the show.

The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.

OTT Platforms for Shameless are Netflix, Sky Go, and All 4 Apple iTunes, Amazon Video.

A look at local issues

The lives and loves of young men in and around the Manchester gay scene.

OTT Platforms for Queer as Folk are All 4, BritBox

Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?

OTT Platforms for Cold Feet are BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel Amazon Video, Apple TV.

British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.

OTT Platforms for The Royle Family are Sky Go, Now TV, BritBox, Virgin TV Go, and BritBox Amazon Channel Amazon Video.

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

OTT Platforms for Cracker are BritBox Amazon Channel Amazon Video.

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

OTT Platforms for Coronation Street are ITVX, BritBox, and BritBox Amazon Channel Apple TV.

Albion Market is a short-lived British soap opera, intended as a companion to Coronation Street on ITV.